Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
ImClone stock trading case. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney probe into trading in the shares of ImClone Systems resulted in a widely publicized criminal case, which resulted in prison terms for businesswoman and television personality Martha Stewart, ImClone CEO Samuel D. Waksal, and Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch ...
According to some news reports on the hoax, victims of the purported fraud receive telephone calls from an unknown person who asks, "Can you hear me?" Some reports suggest that the calls are an attempt to record the person saying the word "Yes", in order to then claim the person agreed to authorize charges to a scammer; such claims have been ...
Cohen said the scam started right after he lost his debit card. The next day, the Bravo host said he received an email that appeared to be from his bank’s fraud alert. “It wasn’t. Because I ...
The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public of a phone scam involving someone calling residents impersonating a deputy. If you receive a call from a number listed as 316-600-3922 ...
The website's goal was to establish a platform of direct communication between the government and the people under the philosophy that "the government will answer when the public asks". The National Petition is composed of a system in which government and Blue House officials respond to every petition recommended by more than 200,000 people ...
A Recent Changes page from a MediaWiki site affected by technical support scammers promoting fake "help lines" Technical support scams can begin in a variety of ways. Some variants of the scam are initiated using pop-up advertising on infected websites or via cybersquatting of major websites.
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing seniors to lose over $3.4 billion. And those ...
Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.